Muto said decisively, "I'll go on the first night patrol, and if you add one more person, who will be with me?"

His eyebrows reflected the color of the leaping candle, showing great fortitude. At this time, whether it was an illusion or something else, countless rumbling sounds had been heard in the distant forest outside, as if some non-human creature lurking in the darkness would burst out at any time to extinguish the dim light of life in the wooden house.

His fighting ability may not be as high as that of Wen Ziliu and he Qin, but he has always played the role of organizer in the few times we have been together, like a somewhat clumsy but reliable brother. He offered to patrol the night on the first night, which surprised Zhou Qing and said, "Brother Mu, this is …". "

Muto didn't hide it either. He took something out of the package and put it on the table. When he heard the folded willow, he saw that it was the candlestick-shaped prop Muto got on the novice turntable.

This candlestick seems to be made of brass, simple in shape and old in color. There are seven separate lamps on it, and the middle one is obviously higher than the six on both sides, like a bronze tree, but the lamp is empty and there is not a single candle. Smelling the broken willow, it was the first time that he carefully observed the prop, and he could not help blurting out: "Seven candlesticks."

In an encouraging tone, he Qin nodded and said, "Yes, it's seven candlesticks." The middle one represents the Sabbath, and the other six represent the six days of God's creation. This prop has a strong religious flavor. "

Muto said to the players, "look at its properties again."

Since the owner of the prop opened his mouth, he took a curious look at the broken willow.

[prop name: empty candlestick (incomplete)]

[grade: C -]

[start type: instant start]

[cooling time: 12 hours]

[attack power: low]

[effect: when all seven candles are lit, the equipment will illuminate the surrounding space with a radius of 3-5 meters for 7 hours, and there is a chance that players in the range will expel non-human creatures of a certain intensity. ]

[equipment level: 5]

Props introduction: seven days later, the light lasts forever, and there is nothing in the world but the fragrance of olive trees. ]

"you mean." Smell folded willow instantly reflected, "is it possible that the reward of a few candles mentioned by Marianne just now is the key to completing this prop of yours?"

"that's right, so I need a regional reward for the first night," Muto said. "

"then I'll go with you." After a moment of silence, Zhou Yao stood up and said, "the attack power of the props I drew is all right. If you two together, you can also have a care."

"Brother!" Zhou Qing exclaimed.

"anyway, I need to remind you of one thing." Hechin chimed in, "you all heard the hint of the system before."

As soon as these words came out, Muto, Zhou Qing, Zhou Yao, du Zijun and others could not help but look at him.

"it is worth noting that this model seems cumbersome, but in fact it is a model that can only work in the valley of terror. With the increase of the difficulty of the later world, it will be more effective in the alienation between players. " He Qin said quietly, "after opening the winning mode, if a player begs you for help, what will you do?" Helping him is of no benefit except wasting his own resources and energy, because you cannot guarantee that he will certainly repay you; if you do not help him, you may be able to reduce the difficulty of the world and increase your chances of survival, and the equipment he exposed can also be owned by you. Will you help me or not? "

Xiong Lin scratched his head, wrinkled his face and said, "well, if you say so, of course you won't help.". "

"this is it, or what she is going to achieve." He Qin said, "No matter how difficult it is, even if there is only one player left, it is impossible for him to fight against the will of a whole intelligent world on his own." If we go on killing each other in this way, the result we get will only be a total rout caused by fighting in the same room, and it is impossible not to unite. "

Muto thought for a moment: "you mean. Let's help each other as much as possible and keep the number of players anyway. Well. I see. "

While everyone was meditating on the ending outlined in Heqin dialect, du Zijun raised his eyelids and stared at he Qin through the flickering candlelight.

"who on earth are you?" She exhaled a ring of smoke with a gloomy expression. "your real identity must not be an ordinary player at all."

Hearing the broken willow suddenly looked up, don't know whether it would be better to be surprised by this woman's keen intuition, or to complain about her strange people.

By the way, how did you smoke again? Where did you find the smoke?!

Unmoved, he Qin picked the corner of his eye with a sharp cold light, "Oh?" Why did Miss du say that? "

"ordinary players can't detect such a far-reaching intention in a short time," she said, holding an equally slender lady's cigarette in her slender fingers, hazy with smoke, blurring her bleak eyebrows. "not to mention two people just died, and it was a tragic death. You and the child around you unexpectedly did not respond to this and adapted very well."

"add in the skill of you. The child named Wen Di is just fighting and responding quickly, but you are different, "she said bluntly." since you are a prop summoned by a child, according to reason, the grade cannot surpass him, but it depends on your performance. the shackles of rank can't affect you at all. "

She has something to say, and the attitude is certain, the players who are skeptical about the origin of he Qin have turned their attention to him one after another.

He Qin bent his peach blossom eyes, which were filled with a casual smile. He looked at du Zijun and suddenly became a little strange.

"it's okay to tell you," he turned his eyes. "Yes, I was a staff member of the internal test in Horror Valley."

Smell fold willow silent, just listen quietly.

"what!"

"is it true what you said?!"

As soon as these words came out, the players were in an uproar, and du Zijun raised his eyebrows in surprise. Several men even pushed aside their chairs and stood up, "are you gm??"

He Qin smiled lazily and looked at them in his spare time: "Don't think about it. Now there are holy nuns in the valley of terror, and there can be no gm here." At best, I can only be regarded as an employee who knows something, but I have no way to perform my duties as an administrator. "

"everybody calm down!" Muto also stood up and suppressed several very emotional players. He said to he Qincheng, "Brother Hechin, since you know something, can you reveal it to us?" After all, everyone knows very little about the world now, if you can tell us more. "

He Qin avoided talking and looked back at the old clock hanging on the wall. "but I think we've wasted too much time, and it's time to go on night patrol."

Mutuo's expression was a little surprised, and Wen Ziliu finally said, "Brother Mu, Brother Zhou, at present, the task of the branch line is really more important. My brother and I can't run. Everyone has been working hard all day. Let's have an early rest. Let's talk about it tomorrow. What do you think?"

Zhou Yao said, "what I said is also true. Everyone should be tired after running around all day.". "

He Qin stood up with the smell of the broken willow and said, "Don't doubt my identity or my purpose. Now, good night, everyone."

Back in the room, he Qin put down the candlestick and turned to look at the broken willow.

His handsome and profound features sparkled in the dim light, and his eyes seemed to hold a thousand stars rippling under the water. When he heard the broken willow, he felt an indescribable attraction. He held his breath and gently turned his eyes.

Fortunately, instead of continuing with their unfinished topic, he Qin went straight to him and asked him, "what do you think? what have you found?"

As soon as he heard that Liu was relieved, he exhaled a breath and looked up at the man in front of him again. He asked, "Brother, why don't you finish what you said?"

There was a small desk in the room with only a chair under it. He Qin sat on the edge of the bed, patted the position beside him and signaled to hear the folded willow to sit down.

"because it's weird." He Qin Dao.

"what's so weird?" Hearing the broken willow suddenly became interested, "Don't say it, let me think about it."

He Qin looked at him with a smile, thought about it carefully when he heard the folded willow, and slowly said, "first, I think the deaths of Lu Hai and Lin Fangfei are strange."

"what are the conditions that trigger the monster, and why are the two of them killed? is it just because they are standing at the front of the line?"

"second, I think the setting of the game is strange."

"since monsters can appear during the day, it proves that they are not afraid of light. In that case, why are they afraid of fire? If they are afraid of the heat of the fire, why do players need to patrol the night? as long as a little hot oil is needed, a few lit iron buckets will be fixed around the cabin, and the fireplace will not go out all night. I can think of at least ten ways to protect the safety of the cabin. What is the significance of this feeder mission that requires players to go out? "

"third, I think Marianne is strange. But now there is so little information that I can't tell what's weird about her.

Smell the willow twisting his eyebrow: "that's all for now. When Brother Mu and his team finish patrolling the night, they may know more."

As he spoke, he inadvertently saw he Qin gazing at his eyes and suddenly stopped.

The loving eyes with a smile and a touch of pride were like a flame, burning his heart, and the enthusiasm almost immediately turned into a steaming mist that flowed through his veins.

"I."

"you speak very well, and I am proud of you." He Qin stretched out his hand and rubbed the back of his neck until he smelled the broken willow so numb that he almost shook. "then let's have a look at it." In fact, normal people can guess the cause of death of Lu Hai and Lin Fangfei after a little exploration. "

"it was because Lin Fangfei refused to take her self-defense weapon, and Lu Hai threw away his own weapon in order to save her." Wen Ziliu said, "there is only one difference between them and other people."

"from this point of view, although the identity of du Zijun is still unknown, she is very smart," he Qin said with a slight movement of eyebrows. "she thought of this for the first time and asked Lu Hai to pick up the weapon quickly."

Wen Ziliu made a helpless gesture: "but it's too late, he's still dead."

"then let's assume that they triggered the condition of death by abandoning their weapons." He Qin said, "but can we make another hypothesis?"

He Qin scratched on the sheets with his fingertips, "if the purpose of the system is to give players a lower horse at the very beginning, let us see how powerful boss is, then you can choose anyone to kill, but the monster's goal is very clear, that is, Lulin two, and the reason to kill them is also extremely imprudent." Is there any use of weapons at this stage other than self-defense? Just because they throw away their weapons, they will be subjected to such a brutal killing, which is too illogical, unlike the plot that n-star can design. "

"you mean." Smelling the broken willow slowly opened his eyes, and with the addition of the [companion] attribute, he and he Qin seemed to have a connection, and they immediately understood each other's meaning, "do they die for another purpose?"

He Qin praised: "clever."

The fog in his mind was suddenly dispersed by he Qin, and the pleasure of solving the riddle exploded like fireworks, and the smell of the broken willow could not wait to pick it up: "Yes, that makes sense!" The cause of their death is indeed too hasty, as if the system wants them to die, just looking for a reason casually, if it has to say that it has any effect, it leads to the two game modes of winning and escaping in the Valley of Terror! From this point of view, the death of Lu and Lin is almost like …. It's like. "

He opened his mouth and felt a lump in his throat, chilling all over his body, and could not speak any more.

"it's like a disposable consumption prop for the plot, isn't it?" He Qin said softly.

Hearing that the willow did not speak, all kinds of strange and terrible conjectures hovered in his mind, and for a long time, he asked with difficulty, "so. Are they real players, or are they npc, like Marianne or something? "

"We'll talk about this later, my dear." Seeing that he was a little afraid, he Qin calmly touched his hair. "as for the second and third oddities you said, there is no way to verify them now, only to wait for tomorrow." I didn't finish because I wanted to see the feeder reward for the next day to prove the strange things you said. "

Smell the broken willow and ask, "so. What are your unfinished words? "

"it is a specific way to crack the main line task." "in order to reflect authenticity, the company has set the concept of participation value for players to maximize restrictions on their words and deeds, allowing them to treat npc as a real person and attach importance to the world view in the game," Hechin said. "in order to reflect the difficulty, they also tampered with it: until players have found and submitted what npc considers to be key items, the system will not let npc take the initiative to disclose the basic information of the main line."

"is it an idealistic way of looking for key items?" Wen Ziliu was surprised, "but it's very difficult!"

He Qin smiled and said, "it's only interesting when it's difficult, isn't it?"

Hearing the broken willow was extremely depressed: "you are a bad adult.". "

Before he had finished his words, there was a faint scream of fear outside the door!

"who?!" Startled at the smell of the broken willow, he Qin frowned.

In the bedroom, Zhou Qing was leaning against the head of the bed, doing nothing to fiddle with the communicator in his hand.

Perhaps in order to fit the background of the times, this communication instrument for the whole regiment has also been painted in a very simple white copper color. still don't know that the nine-button pinyin, which was popular hundreds of years ago, has only half of the display screen.

The equipment that is too advanced and too backward is quite a headache. Zhou Qing fumbled for a while before he was barely familiar with how to use it, when suddenly there was a vague knock on the wall behind her.

She was stupefied and thought about it carefully. Isn't the bedroom next to du Zijun's?

Zhou Qing laughed because her room with Zhou Yao was next to the storeroom on the left and du Zijun lived on the right, so she remembered it clearly. What's going on now? does du Zijun sleep alone, so he's a little scared and bored?

Thinking of this, she could not help but hold out her hand and buckle it on the wall in response.

Although du Zijun is a rather gloomy girl, she is still a normal girl in some ways.

There was a pause on the other side, as if she didn't think she would respond, and the sound of the knock became clearer.

Zhou Qing smiled as she pulled out her communicator and sent a message to her new friend.

Zhou Qing: what are you doing without Rest in the evening? ]

A moment later, du Zijun's text message came back, but she was unexpectedly cold.

Du Zijun: [? What do you mean. ]

Zhou Qing puffed up his cheeks and replied angrily, "Hello!" Knock on the wall in the middle of the night, I found out, and you still don't admit it? Who do you think gave you those shots? ]

How long have been reading this, how long there has been silence, and there has been no reply.

Oh, you feel guilty! Zhou Qingzheng was proud, but the knock on the wall behind her was louder and clearer at this time. Even her back almost felt the tremor of the wall. She frowned and was about to take advantage of the victory to chase, when du Zijun's text message suddenly came back.

Du Zijun: [I am looking for money in the study downstairs | material, my room is empty, who is knocking on the wall with you? ]

Zhou Qing's smile instantly froze on her face, staring stiffly at the two lines, her back cold hair handstand, cold sweat all over her body.

Du Zijun: stay in the room, don't open the door and don't come out! Do you hear me?! ]

The sound of smashing the wall behind stopped.

She sat on the bed with cold hands and feet, dared not say a word, but heard a growing heartbeat against her chest, almost popping out of her throat. In this deadly silence, she looked motionless ahead, her mind blank.

Knock, knock!

Knock!

There were five vibrations before and after, and Zhou Qing's body twitched five times unconsciously, but this time the knock was not behind her, but it knocked on her door!

The communicator in her hand rattled, and she slowly bowed her head, but the originally lit display screen showed irregular horizontal fluctuations, followed by a screen full of snowflake noise. she shivered and pressed the keyboard several times without even responding.

Zhou Qing was short of breath, and she wanted to shout, but she was afraid of what would happen after she shouted, so she had to keep this frightening silence. There was a louder sound of Pound outside the door, and through the door, Zhou Qing also heard a very familiar female voice blurred by the wooden door Filter: "Zhou Qing, Zhou Qing!" Open the door! Why did you lock me out! "

Chou Ching was suddenly sweating like a pulp, her face was pale, and her teeth creaked and trembled. She heard it, and she totally heard it! This is Lin Fangfei's voice!

At this moment, her mental value is already plummeting by 6% per second, and before long, she will face the danger of losing her mind and falling into madness. Zhou Qing bit hard at the back of her hand and forced herself to calm down and think of a solution as soon as possible. She kept looking in her heart for du Zijun, a lifesaver, hoping that people on the same floor could hear the sound and open the door to take a look. After all, du Zijun is the last person to talk to herself, but will she come to save herself?

Her mind whirled so wildly that she could not control it. With the ticking of the clock on the wall, her inner despair and suspicion soared. Du Zijun, who had been slow to come to the rescue, inevitably made her think of the winning mode they had now opened. Yes, she could not have risked her life to save herself. If she dies, not only will the reward be more generous after customs clearance, but the difficulty of the world will be reduced accordingly. What a good deal it is!.

While she was out of her mind, the knock on the door stopped.

Zhou Qing waited for a long time, but there was no more dangerous news, which made her feel a little more at ease.

Have you gone? have you left?

Her head was sweaty and she collapsed on the bed, gasping for breath, when the end of her nose suddenly smelled a growing smell of blood, and there was a slight noise from the window on the right.

She subconsciously turned her head and was suddenly scared out of her wits!

At that moment, a pale face was pasted out of the window, his eyes were empty, his eyes were bleeding, and his lips bent stiffly, showing a twisted and weird smile at her, looking straight at Zhou Qing sitting at the head of the bed.

Zhou Qing screamed, crawled out of bed and ran to the door. "get out!" Piss off! "

With dishevelled hair, a thin nightdress and barefoot, she escaped to the door as fast as she could in her life, unscrewed the key and opened the door hard

Lin Fangfei, whose whole body was covered in blood, hung from the door frame, her long hair covered in sticky patches of blood, and her stiff, swollen eyes gushing through the gap of her hair, fixed on Zhou Qing, who was facing him at the moment.

"you. Why did you lock me out? "